VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) Achieves FedRAMP High Agency Authority to Operate
September 21 2021 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
Authorization will enable government agencies
to implement broad cloud initiatives, adopt remote workforce
strategies, and drive digital transformations in a highly secure
hybrid environment
VMware (NYSE: VMW), today announced VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud
(US) has achieved FedRAMP Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) at the
High Impact Level. FedRAMP is a mandatory U.S. government-wide
program that provides a standardized approach and baseline
requirements for security assessment, authorization, and monitoring
of cloud products. FedRAMP recognizes VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud
for adhering to stringent performance, security, and compliance
standards. With this authorization, U.S. public sector agencies can
now seamlessly migrate and more quickly modernize their VMware
vSphere workloads with VMware Cloud and AWS GovCloud US.
“Achieving this certification for VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud
(US) is a significant testament to the value that government
agencies can realize by moving to the cloud,” said Lynn Martin,
vice president of government, education, and healthcare at VMware.
“VMware recognizes the large investments the government has made
and is committed to helping them move faster to gain more agility
as well as flexibility in moving workloads to multi-cloud
environments.”
Federal, civilian, and defense agencies depend on AWS and VMware
technology to modernize and more efficiently run government
operations, support anywhere workforce strategies, and deliver
traditional and modern digital services to citizens. Federal
agencies, like U.S. Marshals Service, the FedRAMP ATO sponsor, have
included the VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud service as a component
within their multi-cloud strategy.
VMware Cloud on AWS provides public sector IT teams an
on-demand, scalable hybrid cloud service that enables them to
seamlessly extend, migrate and protect their infrastructure in the
cloud. AWS is VMware’s preferred public cloud collaborator for
vSphere-based workloads, and VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud is the
preferred AWS public cloud service for vSphere-based workloads.
VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud is jointly engineered and sold by
VMware and AWS, delivering the best of both worlds to government
agencies – VMware’s proven cloud infrastructure and cloud
management technology available on the AWS cloud, with optimized
access to native AWS services.
“As part of our commitment to deliver technologies that help our
customers operate more efficiently, we are pleased VMware Cloud on
AWS GovCloud achieved the FedRAMP High authorization, which will
give agencies a simplified path to move their highly sensitive
workloads to the cloud,” said Sandy Carter, Vice President of
Partners and Programs, AWS. “U.S. federal, state, and local
government agencies from law enforcement and emergency services to
financial and healthcare systems can now confidently leverage the
best of VMware and AWS to more securely run their mission critical
applications across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments
to take full advantage of the cloud’s agility and cost
savings.”
VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud supports critical public sector use
cases, including application and cloud migration and modernization,
data center extension, disaster recovery as a service, and virtual
desktop infrastructure. Agencies can deploy complete VMware Cloud
environments of integrated compute, network, storage, and
management running in AWS GovCloud in a matter of hours, and scale
capacity on demand in minutes without the need to buy new hardware.
VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud is powered by VMware Cloud Foundation,
which is optimized to run on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS
infrastructure to better protect highly sensitive government
workloads with hardened security. The service provides full
operational consistency with on-premises vSphere environments to
enable fast and simple bi-directional workload portability, with
the ability to leverage and extend established on-premises
enterprise security, governance, and operational policies to
applications and workloads running in AWS GovCloud.
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security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver
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